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"For more than a decade, Twitter was an absolutely key resource for understanding major world events and disasters in real time. Open-source reporters and investigators pieced together the picture on the ground from primary sources and verified content. I’m calling it Twitter in this instance, because that was then. X is something different, although I’m sure we’re all on tenterhooks for its vaunted transformation into the everything app/surveillance capitalism dreamscape humanity deserves."
@cyrilpedia i was actually just reading this. I thought the finale was poignant and correct...
"And while on a good day we can kid ourselves that it doesn’t truly matter … on the bad days, when the chips are down, it really, really does."
One can largely insulate oneself from the chaos on Twitter / X, but sadly supporting it in its current state has negative consequences.